Company
History
| May. 1946 | Nagano Seisakusho established in Numazu, Shizuoka. |
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| Apr. 1948 | Establishes trading relations with Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. |
| Jun. 1958 | Installing a cold header, trimmer and press, Nagano adopts the cold forming manufacturing process. |
| Feb. 1960 | Installs several lathes and an electric furnace, starts manufacturing production tools and dies. |
| Jan. 1961 | Purchases and installs 10 automatic lathes from Miyano Iron Works (now Citizen Machinery Miyano Co., Ltd.). |
| Oct. 1962 | Installs cold formers, rationalizing the cold forming process. |
| Jan. 1964 | Nagano Seisakusho incorporates into Nagano Products Co., Ltd., with a share capital of 5 million yen. |
| Oct. 1964 | Head office and main plant move to current location in Matsunaga, Numazu, Shizuoka. |
| Nov. 1964 | Establishes trading relations with Maruyasu Industries Co., Ltd. |
| Feb. 1965 | Purchases and installs new cold formers from National Machinery. |
| May. 1965 | Designated as a personnel management model company. |
| Apr. 1969 | Share capital increased to 10 million yen. |
| Apr. 1970 | Share capital increased to 15 million yen. |
| Oct. 1970 | Establishes trading relations with Bundy Corporation (now TI Automotive). |
| Apr. 1973 | Establishes trading relations with Mory Industries, Inc. |
| Feb. 1976 | Establishes trading relations with General Electric (GE). |
| Mar. 1977 | Receives the Small And Medium Enterprise Agency Director's Award. |
| Jul. 1977 | Establishes subsidiary Nagano Co., Ltd., for the purposes of selling our products to the construction industry. |
| Nov. 1980 | Establishes trading relations with Sanoh Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| Nov. 1980 | Construction finishes on new, larger production facility at main plant. |
| Nov. 1983 | Change of corporate structure, increase of share capital to 30 million yen. |
| Mar. 1984 | Start of production at the Ozuwa manufacturing plant. |
| Apr. 1991 | Issues private placement bonds worth 200 million yen. |
| Dec. 1991 | Installs an Automated Rack Warehouse System, improving efficiency |
| May. 1992 | Construction finishes on new Head Office building. |
| Apr. 1993 | Yoshitaka Nagano becomes new Representative Director, taking over after his father. |
| July. 1996 | Establishes American subsidiary Nagano International Corporation, in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Apr. 1997 | Establishes trading relations with Siebe Automotive (now Cooper Standard Automotive, Inc.) |
| Oct. 1999 | Obtains ISO9002 certification (currently ISO9001-2008) |
| Aug. 2003 | Start of production at Chicago plant. |
| Oct. 2004 | Nagano International Corporation obtains ISO/TS16949 certification. |
| Jun. 2012 | Establishes Chinese subsidiary Nagano Products (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd. |
| Nov. 2014 | Start of production at Zhuhai plant. |
| Mar. 2016 | Obtains ISO/TS 16949:2009 at Chinese subsidiary Nagano Products (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd |
| May. 2016 | Establishes INDIA subsidiary (NAGANO INDIA PVT., LTD.) |
| Oct. 2017 | Start of production at INDIA plant |
| Apr. 2018 | Obtains IATF16949 at Chinese subsidiary Nagano Products (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd |
| Nov. 2018 | Construction finishes on new, Headquarters factory building |